Thursday, 1 March 2012

Week 5 Learning Reflections

Hi Room 15

What another busy week here at Tawa Intermediate. How did it go for you? This week we've been reading about the Treaty of Waitangi.

One of our writing groups drafted and shot a movie trailer while most of our groups have been working on getting our paragraphs written about us. In Maths we've been working on tessellations and we've also been deciding on our metaphor for our learning statement.

For me the Wins of the Week have been the students who are really stepping up in class to take leadership roles without being asked. I've also been impressed with how many of you are using and finding wacky words to use.

I think our First Attempt In Learning would have to be Nucombe as we lost all our three games. We improved a lot in our last game when we used strategies like pairing stronger players with players who aren't so confident. What do you think we can learn from our losses for the next time we play inter-class sport?

How has your week been?

What have been some positives about your learning? Did you have any wins?

Have you had any challenges with your learning this week? Any First Attempts In Learning?

Hi JadeThe learning win, taking responsibility during class, was also part of your F.A.I.L as I was impressed that you wanted to help even though it was a bit tough for you to reach. I wonder how your tessellations and writing went this week. Can you tell me more?

Hi StephenI really enjoyed listening to you play Taku Reo Rangatira on the guitar during morning tea. You were clearly having a blast. How are you finding balancing all your responsibilities with your school work?

Hi BradI'm glad to see you finished off the tessellation in time for Friday Fun. I think you are right that planning is the key. I think you guys had some good ideas but you needed to persevere and look for help when you get stuck. Perhaps that a First Attempt In Learning?

This week has been pretty fun for me. My learning win this week was I have almost finished all my homework for high fliers and i'm excied to bake my chocolate cake for the class. Hope it taste good! My fail was trying to do the tesalations for maths it's super hard but pretty fun and creative. Something that happenied unexpectidly was I was needed for help for library today for room 15 because Shannon and Reilly had nucombeball but I enjoyed it in the end.

Hi BrittanyI'm glad to hear you had a fun week. I'm impressed that you have almost finished your home learning for high flyers and I'm really looking forward to eating some chocolate cake. What is your secret to getting through your learning tasks?

Hi MichaelI think your table has a great week in terms of improving on your attitudes. That's why you were all ready to go for Friday Fun. I'm sorry that you got kicked in the face by your brother. How can you relate this to your learning in class?

Hi NikkiI can see from your comment that you are using the quality commenting check list. I'm impressed that you finished all your learning goals before Friday Fun. Maths was tricky for a lot of students this week. How do you think making the tessellations and enlargements helped with your learning?

dear miss thompson this week has been a good week. being sick was a bit of a bit of downer. but playing nucombeball was fun and lifted my spirit up and helped me grow in team work and sport min ship.i also enjoyed athletics training i have been finishing my skills off to perfect i hope i do well on the day. from giorgione

Hi GiorgioneI think you've had a good week and we all missed you when you were sick this week. I'm glad to see you are enjoying sport and learning valuable teamwork and sportsmanship skills. I've got my fingers crossed for athletics day. Do you think the weather will be friendly to TIS?

Hi ElizabethI'm glad to hear you've made some improvement on your maths. Basic Facts are like scales or barre work in Ballet. You have to practice, practice, practice. What other strategies do you think you could use to help improve your Basic Facts?

I'm sorry to hear you burnt your finger at foods. Ouch! That must have hurt.

i have a couple of learning positives like finishing my wacky words and my reading.im going good with homework.sad that i was away though!:(.had a fail in spec as i was behind from when i was away and also lost a couple of peaces.Sally-ann

The biggest challenge this week was probably the movie trailer we had to make in the mansfield writting group ,and suprizingly I have not had a F.A.I.L in learning this week. Well the unexpected would have been my embarresment when the movie trailer had been posted on the class blog, I didn't really think that the embarresment would be that hasrsh!!!

Hi LeleI'm glad you've had a great learning win on your Basic Facts. Having a great knowledge of basic facts will help you with learning new maths strategies. Sorry I wasn't clear about the trailer being a blogging for leap year project. Your team did a wonderful job and I was sharing the love.

Hi StepanieMy learning wins this week have been doing the movie trailer for writing, that was really fun.I had a fail today, it was the tessalations they were really har to get right.Nothing unexpected happened this week.From Helen

Hi HelenI'm glad you enjoyed making the movie trailer. I can tell that you girls had an awesome time making and filming it. Sorry to hear that you had a F.A.I.L. What do you think doing the tessellations taught you apart from maths?

Hi Stephanie, My learning win for this week was finishing our trailer. Talk about hardwork! This week has been hardcore, what with Nucombe ball(We'll beat them at soccer and dodegball;})and trying to get all our work done, I'm amazed we're not falling asleep at our desks! How have you coped with this week?

Hi LoganI'm glad you had some ups this week like working on your tessellation. I think you had a great strategy of moving away from people you know will distract you. What made you think of moving away from people?